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Re: Kate Plus Eight!

OMG I am so sick of this biotch. She is worthless, uses her kids to have a lavish lifestyle and those poor kids are traumatized. The sooner this heffer goes away the better. I don't hate many, I HATE her.

Re: Kate Plus Eight!

I have softened a bit toward Kate - but ONLY a very small bit

She is controlling but she does seem to have a good relationship with her kids, and if I had the choice between a Hollywood lifestyle and the one they were living prior to the show, I would most definitely take the former. And, I never questioned her love for her kids nor her desire to want the best for them.

What I do have problems with is how she treated John, friends, fans, etc. She is such a strong and disciplined person that I think bull-dozing over people to get what she wants is just part of who she is...regardless of what that does to the bulldozees! I don't begrudge Kate for wanting a decent life for her and her kids. It's how she does it that I take issue with.

Re: Kate Plus Eight!

I will have to disagree, Jexter. I don't think she has a good relationship with her children at all. I think she has her kids scared to death of her (except Mady), so they do whatever they must to appease her. They have learned what to do so they don't suffer her wrath. Those children always look miserable and tentative around her. There is absolutely no joy in their interactions, and it is so sad.

In all the thousands of photos and hours of tape of this family, I have never seen anything that even remotely suggests she enjoys having her kids around her. She constantly berates them and finds fault with what they do, all while pretending it is because she is in "control." I believe a parent can be in control without demeaning, ridiculing, threatening, or physically/verbally/emotionally/mentally mistreating her children. Sadly, there has been a lot of physical evidence, including her own written and spoken words, that proves she does/has done all these things constantly to her kids.

I have followed this story rather closely from early on because something about the exploitation of children has always made my blood boil. I have never bought her poor pitiful me story, and the fact is, the family was leading quite a comfortable life before the cameras came calling. I don't begrudge anyone wanting a decent life for their kids, but don't make the kids work for that life, and don't sell their privacy for it. She has built a pampered lifestyle for herself on the backs of her children, and continues to want them to foot the bill for her celebrity and that Hollywood lifestyle. I find that unconscionable and repulsive. I will bet that her children will come to understand how they were used and will end up having no relationship with her at all.

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Re: Kate Plus Eight!

Originally Posted by tapper01

and now the book is being re-released. Her own words how she beat her kids and cheated on her husband.

This bitch is finally going to get what she deserves

I hope so, tapper01. But she somehow manages to escape any serious scrutiny. Everyone is on to her now, and she is pretty much universally reviled, but I just wish she would be held accountable for her actions.

"Everything you do matters. Every moment, every decision you make – it affects the people around you – it changes the world in a million imperceptible ways. No matter what your reality, you can make it better." -- Richard Castle